Autism doesn’t just affect boys and men, but research on the condition still predominantly focuses on them. Some scientists are finally beginning to include women and nonbinary people in their studies.

Researchers need funds to investigate why autistic women take their own lives — and how to stop them.

Traits associated with autism and gender variance may co-occur even among typical children — a finding that may ease some of the skepticism about the overlap.

Spectrum’s editors chose five stories from 2018 you may have missed the first time around.

Autistic women’s activity in a ‘social’ brain region tracks with the extent to which they mask their autism.

Autistic people with a minority sexual orientation or gender identity face specific challenges, from having their self-assessments dismissed to difficulties advocating for their gender needs.

Ben Barres agonized over whether to come out as male or commit suicide. In a posthumous memoir, he makes clear that coming out was the right choice.

Girls and boys with autism show different patterns of brain activity in response to sensory stimuli.

Autism researchers must attend to the need for sex and gender diversity in study design as a rule rather than as an exception.

There’s been an increasing awareness in American culture of autism and what it’s like to be a person on the spectrum. Yet most of that discussion focuses on the experience of men, leaving unheard the voices of women. Join Caveat and Spectrum for three talks on dating, employment and race, by women on the spectrum.